Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.
When it comes to the personal essays I write, I just convince myself that no one will ever read them.
In effect I am not a novelist, but rather a failed essayist who started to write novels because he didn't know how to write essays.
I don't like writing essays or theory.
An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays.
A writer has to live with a sense of honor.
Writers seem mesmerized by the state - the temporal entity. The word 'perestroika' is impressed somehow on our minds. But that is not the duty of a writer.
Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.